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com·mon-law

(kŏm′ən-lô′)

adj.

1. Of, relating to, or based on common law.

2. Of or relating to a common-law marriage.

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Adj.

common-law - based on common law; "a common-law right"

unwritten - based on custom rather than documentation; "an unwritten law"; "rites...so ancient that they well might have had their unwritten origins in Aurignacian times"- J.L.T.C.Spence

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common-law

[ˈkɒmənˌlɔː] ADJ [marriage] → consensual; [spouse] → en unión consensual

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common-law

[ˈkɒmənˌlɔː] adj common-law wife → convivente f more uxorio

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common

(ˈkomən) adjective

1. seen or happening often; quite normal or usual. a common occurrence; These birds are not so common nowadays.

2. belonging equally to, or shared by, more than one. This knowledge is common to all of us; We share a common language.

3. publicly owned. common property.

4. coarse or impolite. She uses some very common expressions.

5. of ordinary, not high, social rank. the common people.

6. of a noun, not beginning with a capital letter (except at the beginning of a sentence). The house is empty.

noun

(a piece of) public land for everyone to use, with few or no buildings. the village common.

ˈcommoner noun

a person who is not of high rank. The royal princess married a commoner.

common knowledge

something known to everyone or to most people. Surely you know that already – it's common knowledge.

common ˈlaw noun

a system of unwritten laws based on old customs and on judges' earlier decisions.

ˈcommon-law adjective

referring to a relationship between two people who are not officially married, but have the same rights as husband and wife. a common-law marriage; a common-law wife/husband.

ˈcommonplace adjective

very ordinary and uninteresting. commonplace remarks.

ˈcommon-room noun

in a college, school etc a sitting-room for the use of a group.

common sense

practical good sense. If he has any common sense he'll change jobs.

the Common Market

(formerly) an association of certain European countries to establish free trade (without duty, tariffs etc) among them, now replaced by the European Union.

the (House of) Commons

the lower house of the British parliament.

in common

(of interests, attitudes, characteristics etc) shared or alike. They have nothing in common – I don't know why they're getting married.

References in classic literature ?

The British blood was up; and the British resolution to bet, which successfully defies common decency and common-law from one end of the country to the other, was not to be trifled with.

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Pickwick had taken, was an office-lad of fourteen, with a tenor voice; near him a common-law clerk with a bass one.

View in context

At the same time as the Department of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada ("IRCC") re-launches its popular Parents and Grandparents Sponsorship program, the fate of another popular program --the Inland Spousal Open Work Permit ("OWP") pilot program for spouses and common-law partners living in Canada--remains in limbo merely days before it is set to expire on January 31, 2019.

Work permit program for spouses and partners in limbo: The Inland Spousal OWP pilot program reduced financial and isolation hardship on families

The description "judge made" is erroneous, however, because in the common-law tradition judges are responsible not for making the law but rather for finding it in the customary practices of people or existing social norms, whether committed to paper or not.

Gordon Tullock's Critique of the Common Law

The circuit court also concluded that the parties did not enter a common-law marriage in D.C.

D.C. hotel stay didn't constitute marriage

They claimed that since their uncle and Ciri are lovers, he cannot donate his property to his common-law wife.

She cares, he gives

(153.) See, e.g., Antonin Scalia, Common-Law Courts in a Civil-Law System: The Role of United States Federal Courts in Interpreting the Constitution and Laws, in A MATTER OF Interpretation: Federal Courts and the Law 3, 10 (Amy Gutmann ed., 1997).

The common law of war

I conclude by discussing how such opinions reflect and enact the common-law theories on which the American legal system has flourished, and finally by celebrating concurring and dissenting opinions as an intricate and important form of judicial service to the legal profession.

The corrective careers of concurrences and dissents

Does it mean the common law as it stood at the time of the Declaration of Independence, or as it stood when our statute was enacted, or are we to understand the common-law system, in its entirety, including all judicial improvements and modifications in this country and in England, to the present time, so far as applicable to our conditions?

Paul Finn's, "Statutes and The Common Law."

says both today's liberals and conservatives "remain in debt to certain common-law ways of thinking and to specific common-law rights." (108) First, some constitutional theorists defend the common law type of reasoning in constitutional cases.

Common law constitutionalism and its counterpart in Japan

v Nguyen [2015]) NCA 278 has decided that the spousal incompetency rule, which forbids spouses to be compelled to testify against each other, and spousal privilege, does not extend to common-law couples [1].

The holy grail

Leoni and Hayek's approaches consider common law as a spontaneous-order process, as distinguished, for example, from other philosophies that see the common-law process through a lens of legal positivism, effectively treating judges as functionally equivalent to legislators.